100 best lycées in France
A Google Maps/Le Figaro mashup.
3 comments, including Trevor: Edited. Though many of my favourite readers were spammers before they went into the meat grinder.The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
26 comments, including Rab: @ Jeremy Well, then the same applies to everybody: I wish immigrants to Catalonia spent more energy
Translating Hamlet into Siberian
How would you describe the relationship of the Slav Francisco with his mother?
2 comments, including Trevor: That's good stuff, but not to be outdone here's a chunk of Serb Hamlet, from the Yugoslav Youth TheaPortrait of the artist as a jam-jar
And of a great British pub landlord, Juan from Málaga.
Decadent graffiti art at nursery entrance in Carmelo, Barcelona
The artist speaks.
The secret language of doctors
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
Chop up those gift-bearing Catalans
Scratch a libertarian and you’ll discover a totalitarian, so keep scratching.
Pig / lion / monkey / child wine
A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.
2 comments, including A Nun: Fifty? That's nothing: Gaspar Caldera de Heredia['s ...] principal work, to the merit of which we caNice work if you can eat it
Influence of fat content on palatability of roast beef.
Commental asylum
- Trevor@El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?: Damn, damn, damn, we really need to get beyond this unsubstantiated claims shit.
- Peter@El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?: The incidents in the second leg of the 1943 Cup game were denied by some of the Barcelona players. A
- Trevor@Mysterious Spanish game: Why are so many people visiting this post? OK, I'm too lazy to examine the query stats.
- Trevor@100 best lycées in France: Edited. Though many of my favourite readers were spammers before they went into the meat grinder.
- Tom@100 best lycées in France: I think that Alena's a wicked little liar.
- Alena@100 best lycées in France: I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comme
- A Nun@Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Fra…: The situation at the moment is the same in Catalonia as in Andalucia and other parts of Spain. Peopl
Das Scroll und Scream Kitschin' Kabinett des Dr Kalebeul
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- Vista del puerto en 1880
- Las ONG denuncian las presiones de eurodiputados españoles para evitar la prohibición del comercio internacional de atún rojo
- Militares galeses dan una paliza a varias personas en Lanzarote - Canarias - Canarias - ABC.es
- ESTE ES el Power Point que ayer presentaron Elena Salgado y
- Pánico? Sell Spain? Where?
- America's Wars Without Decisive End
- España y la información económica: falta de autocrítica y transparencia
- Euro perspective - Paul Krugman Blog
- Smug parakeets and resourceful magpies
- La Unesco escucha los miedos de la Sagrada Família al túnel del AVE
- [Actualizado 3 veces] ¿*LIBERTAD DIGITAL*? ¿El *ABC*? No, *El
- Track Mouse Activity On Your Computer
- O a setas o a Rolex
- Levante 9 2 2010
- China Lists $9.6 Billion in Shares of U.S. Companies
- The Economy, Nepotism, Child-rearing and Bureaucratese.
- Viaje a la City: ni frío ni calor
- ¿El final de la cuenta atrás del euro?
- 2010/02/08 - Un club nocturno organiza "bailes eróticos pro Haití"
- 2010/02/08 - Unos ancianos alemanes, juzgados por secuestrar a su asesor financiero
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- FollowTheBaldie.com: Vertaling in ‘t Nederlands.
- My Barrel Organ: Massive cock.
- Fucked Translation: "the economic vice, Elena Salgado, has traveled to London to soothe investor sentiment"
- Facebook: Trevor can't keep up with John and Neil.
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Eastern Black Sea Tour, Tunisia
TravelShop Turkey’s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).
Galen: not nuts
Galen is an indispensable early source for historians of the walnut, the hazelnut, the testicle, and so forth, but this does not explain why galen is used in Swedish to describe a disturbed person.
A Barcelona spamvertising blog
Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?It confuses Antoni “Everything comes from the great book of Nature” Gaudí with whatever Gaudi means in Pushtu.
No, wait, isn’t that Montserrat in the background?!
(Pic: Wikimedia Commons. More nominally Muslim fortresses here.)
On this day
Barcelona
- February 9 1848
En el año del Señor 1839 un cirujano de la villa de Sancti Spiritus en la provincia de Badajoz hizo saber á la Diputacion provincial de Sevilla, que habia encontrado un remedio seguro para curar el dolor de muellas, remedio que consistia en apretar entre los dientes el mástil de una guitarra ...
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 9 de febrer de 1919 Diumenge. Matí de petites volves d’aigua glaçada. Un cel com esmerilat. Fredor insidiosa i desagradable. Havia d’haver anat a començar d’aprendre la instrucció militar a l’Acadèmia de les Drassanes. No hi he anat. A la tarda, acompanyo Xavier Güell a casa seva –un pis sumptuós i sòlid del Passeig de Gràcia. Té foc a la llar. [...]
The peepul's choice
- Mysterious Spanish game
- Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
- Pig / lion / monkey / child wine
- Barcelona Airport T1 pics
- More Nordic body culture in Barcelona
- Time to behead Fèlix Millet?
- A Barcelona spamvertising blog
- Chop up those gift-bearing Catalans
- The secret language of doctors
- 100 best lycées in France
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú
- Voter registration campaign for EU elections in June
- Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
- The naming of El Picazo
- The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo
- The coming and going of the gypsies
- Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona has had impact on mainstream acceptance of Spanish in USA
- What’s your ex-pat blogging style?
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Sagrada Familia mural
- Forum auction not to include mayor Clos
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Dogs’ bollocks
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú
